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Pattern Fab-February 2020 The dark age

Another rainy day today as the rain train continues. Already have picked up 2.18 inches of rain here and it’s still coming down.

To show some perspective on how wet it has been to start this year, here are some of my rainfall stats

Today was:
The 7th day of the year with an inch of rain or more.
The 4th day of the year with 2+ inches of rain.

January total rainfall: 9.98 inches
February total rainfall: 9.64 inches (so far)
Yearly total: 19.62 inches (so far)
 
With the understanding that the CFS has a cold bias in general, the 6Z CFS verbatim has KATL near a whopping 9 BN for 3/1-15 (~43 F or near the coldest 10 day stretch of normals of January), which if verified would make it the coldest 3/1-15 there since way back in 1969!

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850 mb 0Z line down to FL/GA border, something not seen often for a full 5 day averaged period during any part of winter much less early March!

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Wonderful... It's like clockwork. Throw April in the trash as well.
 
I hope this cold is real that Larry keeps showing . I haven’t been able to snuggle with the wife once yet this winter . I know we’ve had cold in the past seven years cause I have two kids . So I snuggled at some point


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I think the coldest temp RDU has had all winter was 24, which is insane. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the warmest minimum temperature for a winter on record. We may break that in the last 10 days of Fab Feb, though, especially if we get some snow cover down tomorrow.
 
Pattern looks active with several threats per the GFS. Winter and chances ain’t over.


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I think the coldest temp RDU has had all winter was 24, which is insane. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the warmest minimum temperature for a winter on record. We may break that in the last 10 days of Fab Feb, though, especially if we get some snow cover down tomorrow.
Record is 23 for raleigh and 22 if I’m not mistaken for RDU airport so yes a record!
 
Good lord we’re going to be busy the next couple weeks at least ... how fun is this? BACKLOADED FOR THE WIN ...

Something to note as we were sharing the euro ensembles and Gfs ensembles the past week ..

I did see a lot of sporadic members in both suites pick up on the storm system for next week and some had some pretty good snow totals so I think we may have another boom bust scenario on our hand.. still can’t believe we’re going to be this busy


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Picked up 1.74" of rain in the last batch yesterday. This will be used for testing purposes/for fun, but as a reference, here are what some models have up until the next round ends in my area...

12z GFS: 1.21" and 0z GFS: 1.10"
12z Euro: 1.24"
18z NAM: 1.8"
0z HRRR: 1.07"

Kinda striking how close the GFS/Euro is, even though it's close range, but will look at this after the precip is over and see how much I actually got in comparison.
 
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Remember though the daily average. Temps r rising heading March


They're still pretty low then as they don't start rising rapidly until much later in March. As I said, a freeze or two down to or even south of him is being modeled. Some highs in the 40s are being modeled that is at or near the coldest yet this winter. There is genuine cold likely coming with much below temps on several days. So, @pcbjr is going to have some great opportunities to use his fireplace.
 
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I know yall are focused on winter weather in North Carolina tomm, but does anyone have a link to access tropicaltidbits gfs maps so I can look up past winter events?
 
I’m seeing some wicked phase potential at the end of the month..I’m sounding the alarm for Feb 28-March 4

PNA with a split flow. Relentless southern stream. Trough digging into the east. Juicy wave coming down the Idaho stovepipe followed by another NS wave diving down out of Canada..mercy

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I’m seeing some wicked phase potential at the end of the month..I’m sounding the alarm for Feb 28-March 4

PNA with a split flow. Relentless southern stream. Trough digging into the east. Juicy wave coming down the Idaho stovepipe followed by another NS wave diving down out of Canada..mercy

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And this is all we needed we just need a few things to come together to give us the cold and with that active southern jet something is bound to connect ... connecting for the first time tomorrow .. and it looks to go rampit later this month and early March .. and right now we have atrocious teleconnections .. models picking up on better teleconnections with the next set of systems .. were going to score again folks


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I’m seeing some wicked phase potential at the end of the month..I’m sounding the alarm for Feb 28-March 4

PNA with a split flow. Relentless southern stream. Trough digging into the east. Juicy wave coming down the Idaho stovepipe followed by another NS wave diving down out of Canada..mercy

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In that particular sequence, who'd that benefit (I'm still somewhat a novice when it comes to a few details)?
 
I’m seeing some wicked phase potential at the end of the month..I’m sounding the alarm for Feb 28-March 4

PNA with a split flow. Relentless southern stream. Trough digging into the east. Juicy wave coming down the Idaho stovepipe followed by another NS wave diving down out of Canada..mercy

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And this is all we needed we just need a few things to come together to give us the cold and with that active southern jet something is bound to connect ... connecting for the first time tomorrow .. and it looks to go rampit later this month and early March .. and right now we have atrocious teleconnections .. models picking up on better teleconnections with the next set of systems .. were going to score again folks


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Today just might be the appetizer for the big dog.
 
Add in the rain as well. This looks pretty gloomy for the SE. Lanier is already at record levels.


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Be glad that the Euro isn’t showing more instability for next week. Back to back dangerous looks at 500mb with the second really nasty.
Just fixing to hit on that ... be interesting see what today’s 12z runs show. The gfs this morning had one mean nasty severe outbreak fantasy land ... with cape Val’s pushing 1500 towards north as Tennessee state line . 971 mb slp over northern Missouri unreal
 
Latest long term trends going into March have been warmer than earlier runs since yesterday, especially on GEFS/GEPS. Let’s see what the EPS has later.
 
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